DISEASES

Disease-gene associations mined from literature

Literature associating MT2A and scrapie

MT2A [ENSP00000245185]

Metallothionein-2; Metallothioneins have a high content of cysteine residues that bind various heavy metals; these proteins are transcriptionally regulated by both heavy metals and glucocorticoids; Belongs to the metallothionein superfamily. Type 1 family.

Synonyms:  MT2A,  MT2Ap,  hMT2A,  H3BSP9,  P02795 ...

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